Lauren Wolfe on http://www.onthemedia.org/http://www.onthemedia.org/people/lauren-wolfe/2012-06-01T00:00:00-04:00Balancing Advocacy and Accuracy
2012-06-01T00:00:00-04:00http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/jun/01/balancing-advocacy-and-accuracy/<p>In a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/turn-the-tide-against-bashar-al-assad/2012/05/17/gIQAkW02WU_story.html" target="_blank"><em>Washington Post</em> op-ed</a> last month, Senator Joseph Lieberman spoke of “horrific human rights abuses perpetrated daily, including the widespread and deliberate use of rape and other sexual violence as weapons of war.” Lauren Wolfe, director of the <a href="http://www.womenundersiegeproject.org/" target="_blank">Women Under Siege Project</a>, which has curated <a href="https://womenundersiegesyria.crowdmap.com/" target="_blank">a map plotting instances of sexual violence</a> in Syria, talks with Brooke about <a href="http://www.womenundersiegeproject.org/blog/entry/walking-the-tightrope-that-is-reporting-rape-in-syria" target="_blank">trying to check the senator's claim</a> and the difficulty of verifying claims of rape in a war-zone.</p>
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